Archives for December 2013

This past year has been terrible. On the domestic front, Obama’s political and personal pathologies dominate.

I recently spoke with a close friend who is a fine, dedicated physician in a small private practice. He’s considering early retirement. “I don’t think I can continue practicing medicine under ObamaCare. It forces me to pay more attention to paper work than to my patients. It would also force me into bankruptcy. I don’t take Medicare patients. ObamaCare is Medicare on steroids.”

The coming year for ObamaCare, and the vast majority of American people, will be even worse.

On the international scene, the four-year civil war in Syria looks like it will continue indefinitely. Here again, Obama’s lie about a chemical red-line was a defining moment.

A trusted source who is close to Bibi Netanyahu told Seraphic Secret that when Obama reneged on his chemical red-line statement, Israel understood that Obama is “fundamentally weak and untrustworthy.”

Barack Obama’s personality is remarkably consistent. He is a classic narcissist. His self-absorption is already legendary in the bubble that is Washington D.C., even among his most ardent supporters.

Classic narcissists display a tendency to blame others for their failures. Personal responsibility is a foreign shore. There is a complete inability to admit wrong, or take responsibility for moral failure. The narcissist’s excuses are tediously familiar.

It’s a misunderstanding.

Shadow conspirators manipulate events.

Racism is to blame.

Jews are to blame.

The other guy is to blame.

I didn’t know anything about it.

It’s a lie. Everything is just great.

Barack Obama worshiped in a blatantly Jew and America-hating church for over 20 years. The radical pastor of this church, Jeremiah Wright, preaches Black Liberation Theology, an ideology that is openly Marxist, and leans heavily on vicious, Jew-hating conspiracy theories.

Obama claimed that in all his years as Wright’s parishioner, he never heard any of these evil sermons.

Seraphic Secret poses the question: Would a Republican who attended a white supremacist church get away with the same claim?

The answer is obvious.

Half of what Obama says is not true, the other half is lies. He gets away with this pathological behavior because liberal America is so desperate to prove that they are not racist. And Obama’s entire career is carefully designed to take advantage of this chronic self-flagellation.

And now, Obama’s lies are so entangled with ObamaCare that the result is almost comical: Obama lies about lies about lies — in order to distance himself from the universe of tragedies ObamaCare is sowing for millions of American citizens.

“Escaping Criticism” 1874, by Pere Borrel del Caso (1835 -1910). A masterful and witty example of trompe-l’oeil where the artist tricks our eye by creating a convincing optical illusion. Here, a barefoot boy is escaping the confines of the frame—his world—perhaps seeking a better life by stepping into the viewer’s universe. Think of this painting as a scene from a time travel movie.

When our children were little, one of our favorite Shabbat activities was leafing through art books. I’d sink into a comfortable chair. One of the children would plop into my lap. We’d look at reproductions of art, and make up stories about various paintings.

The best paintings are like scenes from movies never produced. The characters feel real. They think. They feel. We care about them. We want to know them. Most of all, we yearn to know what happens next.

Here are a few paintings that never failed to capture our imaginations.

There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy Holidays.”

Look, we at Seraphic Secret are Orthodox Jews. This is not our holiday.

But we want our Christian friends to celebrate Christmas. The politically correct Happy Holidays shtick is another nail in the coffin of American culture; another instance where a minority of obnoxious liberals bully the larger culture into secular nothingness.

American Christianity is a unique force in world history. It is not the Christianity of Europe that is poisoned with genocidal Jew-hatred.

Hollywood used to celebrate Christmas using every tool in the cinematic playbook.

Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.

Snip!

“We are the Obama people,” said Camille Sweeney, a New York writer and member of the Authors Guild. Her insurance is being canceled, and she is dismayed that neither her pediatrician nor her general practitioner appears to be on the exchange plans. What to do has become a hot topic on Facebook and at dinner parties frequented by her fellow writers and artists.

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I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.

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